News of Note
Israel at War
Israeli Warplanes Hit Lebanese Border Areas
Airstrikes kill 15 civilians in southern border village
Israel Triples Troops in Lebanon
Security Council OKs Peacekeepers
Raw Data: Text of U.N. Resolution
American in Beirut: Playing 'Tourist'
U.N. Unanimously Votes 'Cease Fire'
Israel pushes into Lebanonas Olmert agrees to resolution
6 Killed by Israeli Drone
Raw Data: Text of U.N. Resolution
American in Beirut: Playing 'Tourist'
Israel attacks convoy fleeing south Lebanon - Video
U.N. Unanimously Votes 'Cease Fire'
Israel pushes into Lebanonas Olmert agrees to resolution
6 Killed by Israeli Drone
Raw Data: Text of U.N. Resolution
American in Beirut: Playing 'Tourist'
Video: Annan: 'Vital Step Forward'
Video: Rice on Mideast Cease-Fire
Israel attacks convoy fleeing south Lebanon - Video

Operation Iraqi Freedom
Bush condemns attempt to blow up Iraqi Islam site - Video
Top U.S. General Doesn't Rule Out Iraq Troop Reductions
U.S. Forces Nab 60 Al Qaeda Suspects in Iraq; Envoy Says Iran is Backing Shiite Militias

Operation Enduring Freedom
Three U.S.-Led Coalition Soldiers Killed in Afghanistan
Coalition Teams Treat Afghan Patients

Homeland Security / War on Terror
NORTHCOM Was Aware of Plot
U.K. Investigators Tracing Terror Plot Money Trail
U.S. Travelers Adjusting
What's Allowed and What Isn't
Threat Fades, but Politics Rage
Photo Essay: Airport Delays
FOX Facts: Ticketing Changes
Pakistan points to al Qaeda plot link - Video
Was it al Qaeda? Analysts cite diffuse groups
US airport security crawls
US to tighten some passport requirements in 2007
Police eye money trail in airliner plot
U.S. travelers adjusting to new rules
Terror plot probe under way in U.S.
Bush staff wanted bomb-detect cash moved
Court rules NY police can search bags at subways
3 More Missing Egyptian Students Arrested in U.S.
India Heightens Security Amid Al Qaeda Terror Warning

Troops on Trial
Army War Objector Returns

NSA / CIA
Government rests in ex-CIA worker's case

Worldwide Wackos
U.S. Official: Castro Has 'Serious' Health Problems
Cubans plan Castro birthday with or without leader - Video
Chavez reveals recipe for Castro's "tsunami" antacid

Homegrown Moonbats
Activist Sheehan Hospitalized After Hunger Strike

Politics / Government
W.House defends Cheney on remarks about Democrats

Mother Nature
Buildings Evacuated as 5.9 Quake Rocks Mexico City
6.0 Quake Shakes Indonesia
Typhoon kills 104 in China; 190 missing

Oddities
Sex taboos hamper safety message for gay Chinese
French firm seeks to conquer U.S. with Wi-Fi bunny
Paris Hilton bitten by pet kinkajou

Other News of Note
Mike Douglas, former TV show host, dies

Fox News
Feds to Push On With Online Betting Prosecution
Nobel Prize-Winning Author Admits Nazi Past
Judge Orders Mental Health Evaluation for Clarett
Teen Arrested After Mom's Body Found in Freezer
Brooklyn's 'Undercover Kitten' Dies in Traffic Accident

Reuters: Top News
Sri Lanka rebels say destroy northern defences
To pig or not to pig? BP's oil pipeline question
Stalemate seen in high-definition DVD war
Women stick with contraceptive pill over patch
Physically active life good for the body and brain
Actor Lou Diamond Phillips arrested
Magazine says Kanye West engaged
Stocks slide on growth worries - Video
BETonSPORTS shutters US business
First Marblehead shares fall after earnings
Mills shares hit lowest in 5 years
Shares of Evercore IPO rise in debut
Ford Motor Credit sale likely not in cards
Crosby, Stills and...economic balance?
Mining merger madness attracts global interest
Airlines face margin pressure
Congress fumes as BP nears decision
Rails target veterans to plug labor gaps
Former Wal-Mart exec sentenced
Apple seeks Nasdaq hearing on compliance

AP World News
Tenn. minister's wife to remain jailed
NYC professor promotes urban fish farm
Mets undone by former top draft pick
Undercover Kitten killed by car
Williams fires 12 aces in Chase Open win .
Pleshette treated for lung cancer
Dow ends down 36, Nasdaq closes down 14
Dunst poses as Marie Antoinette in Vogue
Mothers who used same sperm donor meet
Retail sales climb 1.4 percent in July
Gold's poker face wins him $12 million
Utah teen charged in mother's death

Military.com
Air Force Works to Save Tanker R&D Money
Security Measures Apply to AMC Travelers - Video

CENTCOM: News Releases
MND-B’S 1ST SQDN., 10TH CAV. REGT., DISTRIBUTES HUMANITARIAN-AID TO ARAB JABUR RESIDENTS

EXTREMIST ATTACKS FOILED IN PAKTIKA

CENTCOM’S TOP NCO PRAISES AFGHANISTAN

SUSPECTED AL QAEDA FACILITATOR TARGETED IN AFGHAN, COALITION RAID

THREE COALITION SOLDIERS KILLED IN NORTHEAST AFGHANISTAN

IRAQI HOSTAGE FREED

THREE COALITION SOLDIERS KILLED IN NORTHEAST AFGHANISTAN

COALITION FORCES CAPTURE WANTED TERRORIST IN BAYJI

MND-B SOLDIERS FIND WEAPONS, SEIZE AMMUNITION

MND-B SOLDIERS FIND 2 LARGE WEAPONS CACHES

IRAQI NATIONAL POLICE, MND-B SOLDIERS RAID DOURA MARKET, SEIZE WEAPONS, DETAIN 3 TERRORISTS

CAMP LACEY SOLDIERS ASSIST INJURED AFGHAN CHILD

UP-ARMORED HUMVEES SAVE COALITION TROOPS

USJFCOM
Value of experimentation to the joint warfighter stressed in urban experiment - podcast

Department of Defense
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ON THE GROUND
Training Academy Gets New Motorcycles - Story
Operation Combs Al-Doura Neighborhood - Story
Helping Iraqi Youth ‘Best Part of My Job’ - Story

IN IRAQ
Combat Zone Ingenuity Protects Marines
Infantry Soldiers Root Out Insurgents
Water Treatment Plant Receives Upgrade
Iraqis Improve Defenses with Border Forts
Iraqi Soldiers Finish Personnel Course
Power Production Team Critical to Iraq Mission

IN AFGHANISTAN
Meeting Clairifies Reconstruction Team's Role
Munitions, Weapons Airmen Secure Bombs
Air Force Specialists Keep Planes in Flight

BACKGROUND
IRAQ
Renewal In Iraq
Iraq: Security, Stability
Fact Sheet: Progress and Work Ahead
Report: Strategy for Victory in Iraq
Iraq Daily Update
This Week in Iraq
Multinational Force Iraq
State Dept. Weekly Iraq Report (PDF)
'Boots on the Ground' Audio Archive
Weekly Reconstruction Report (PDF)
Iraq Reconstruction
Maps

AFGHANISTAN
Afghanistan Update
Maps

WAR ON TERRORISM
Fact Sheet: Budget Request
Fact Sheet: War on Terror
Fact Sheet: Terror Plots Disrupted
Waging and Winning the War on Terror
Terrorism Timeline
Terrorism Knowledge Base

CASUALTIES
Officials Identify Army Casualty - Story

Weather
Iraq
Al Azamiyah Al Basrah Al Hillah Al Karkh Al Kazimiyah Al Kut
An Nasiriyah Baghdad Baqubah Mosul Najaf Nineveh Tall Kayf

Afghanistan
Bost/Laskar Ghurian Herat Kabul Qandahar

Gitmo

Today in History
1553 - Pope Julius III orders the confiscation and burning of the Talmud.
1676 - In New England, King Philip's War (vs. the Wampanoag Indians) ends.
1851 - Isaac Singer s igranted a patent for his sewing machine.
1862 - General John Hunt Morgan and his raiders capture Gallatin, TX.
1867 - President Andrew Johnson defies Congress by suspending Secretary of War Edwin Stanton.
1877 - Thomas Edison invents the Edisonphone, a sound recording device.
1898 - The U.S. formally annexes Hawaii; the Spanish-American War formally ends.
1941 - French Marshal Henri Petain gives his full support to Nazi Germany.
1953 - The U.S.S.R. conducts a secret test of its first hydrogen bomb.
1955 - President Eisenhower raises the minimum wage from $0.75 to $1 an hour.
1959 - For the first time, a Polaris missile is fired by a ship (Observation Island).
1960 - Echo 1, the first communications satellite, is launched; USAF Major Robert M. White takes the X-15 to 41,600 m.
1962 - Russia launches Vostok 4.
1972 - The last American combat ground troops leave Vietnam.
1976 - The Space Shuttle Enterprise is put through its first approach and lands test (ALT)
1977 - High Energy Astronomy Observatory 1 is launched into an Earth orbit; the Space Shuttle Enterprise makes its first atmospheric flight.
1978 - ICE is launched
1981 - IBM introduces the PC and PC-DOS version 1.0.
1990 - Iraq President Saddam Hussein says he is ready to resolve the Gulf crisis if Israel withdraws from occupied territories.

Birthdays
1757 - ALF, TV alien life form ("ALF")
1762 - King George IV of England (1820-30)
1781 - Robert Mills, architect (Washington Monument)
1859 - Katharine Lee Bates, author (America the Beautiful)
1925 - Dale Bumpers (Sen-AR)
1936 - John Poindexter, US Chief of Staff
1951 - Charles E. Brady, Jr., USN Commander/astronaut
1960 - Lonny Chin, Playboy playmate (Jan, 1983)
19?? - My little sister - Happy Birthday, K!

Passings
1900 - Wilhelm Steinitz, Chess champion (1866-1894)
1982 - Henry Fonda, actor (On Golden Pond)

Reported Missing in Action
1965
Brown, Donald H., Jr., USN (CA); A4E shot down, remains returned August,1985

1966
Allison, David, USAF (MT); F105D shot down
Neuens, Martin J., USAF (WI); released March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Wrye, Blair C., USAF (MA); RF101C shot down

1967
Atterberry, Edwin, USAF (TX); RF4C shot down, DIC May, 1969, remains returned March, 1974
Norris, Thomas E., USAF (IL); F105 shot down, released by DRV March, 1973 - retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Parrott, Thomas V., USAF (GA); down, RF4C shotreleased by DRV March, 1973 - deceased, October, 1998

1968
Tullier, Lonnie Joseph, US Army (LA); passenger in UH1B that crashed, remains recovered August, 1968

1969
Sexton, John C., US Army (MI); released October, 1971

1970
Brown, James A., US Army (TN); swept down river; Killed, body not recovered

1972
Thompson, David M., USN (PA); KIA, body not recovered